Twisted rails, sunken ships the rhetoric of nineteenth century steamboat and railroad accident investigation reports, 1833-1879 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brockmann, R. John.
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amityville, N.Y. : Baywood Pub. Co., 2005.
Series:Baywood's technical communications series (Unnumbered)
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300 |a xiii, 273 p. :  |b ill., ports. 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a pt. 1. Using science as a corporate defense -- pt. 2. Publicity, political pressure, and emotional involvement by authors transform disaster investigations -- pt. 3. The antebellum period of disaster investigation : transformation ends and a constellation of roles and reports becomes normal. 
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